title: Can't wait to myelinate.
abstract: Oligodendrocytes myelinate axons in the central nervous system (CNS). In this issue of Developmental Cell, Czopka et al. (2013) shed light on the temporal control of myelination by individual cells. They demonstrate that oligodendrocytes in vivo have only a brief time window to initiate myelination, which has important implications for CNS plasticity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. tglenn@stanford.edu
authors.forename: Thomas D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Glenn
authors.forename: William S
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Talbot
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009186:Myelin Sheath / Q000502:physiology*; D009836:Oligodendroglia / Q000502:physiology*; D051076:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fyn / Q000502:physiology*; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000196:embryology*; D015027:Zebrafish / Q000502:physiology*; D029961:Zebrafish Proteins / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D029961:Zebrafish Proteins; D051076:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fyn; C494964:fyna protein, zebrafish